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Quartas de final

🗓️ Data e horário: quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2024, às 21h30 (hora de Brasília)
📍 Local: Arena Fonte Nova, em Salvador (BA)
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Vágner; Arnaldo, Joécio, Rafael Vaz e Diego Matos; Sousa Marco Antônio e Patrick Allan e Thiago Lopes; Cléo Silva e Paulo Sérgio.

Desfalques: Lorran e Júlio César (lesionados)

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Manchester United have now reportedly been offered the chance to sign an England midfielder for just £26m when the January transfer window arrives.

Man Utd seeking midfield reinforcements

In the summer, it was Ruben Amorim’s frontline that took the focus as INEOS welcomed Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko in an impressive window. Now, when 2026 arrives, it looks as though Sir Jim Ratcliffe is set to turn his attention towards Man United’s midfield.

Those at Old Trafford were eyeing a move for Carlos Baleba at the end of the summer window, before Brighton & Hove Albion priced them out of a move. Months on, it seems as though the midfielder has fallen down Man United’s shortlist of targets, with Nottingham Forest’s Elliot Anderson now taking centre-stage.

The 23-year-old is quickly becoming the most sought-after player in the Premier League, but he’s not the only option on United’s list of targets in the middle of the park.

They’ve also reportedly been told that they can now sign Conor Gallagher from Atletico Madrid at a bargain price in January. The former Chelsea man could be on his way back to the Premier League as he looks to earn his way back into Thomas Tuchel’s England squad ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Man Utd now offered bargain Conor Gallagher deal

According to Pete O’Rourke of Football Insider, Man United have now been told that they can sign Gallagher for just €30m (£26m) when 2026 arrives. The England international has become surplus to requirements at Atletico Madrid and he’s now ready to leave the club in pursuit of consistent game time.

Dubbed “intense” by Simeone, Gallagher could provide the legs in United’s midfield that Casemiro is otherwise unable to provide these days. The 25-year-old is a true midfield workhorse, who also has a knack for popping up with goals when needed.

Although United’s big target is Anderson, they’d be doing their top four prospects no harm by welcoming Gallagher in the January transfer window, especially at just £26m.

Man Utd eye move for £80m star who Man City would "love" to buy in January

The Red Devils could be in a direct fight with their Premier League rivals to land his signature.

BySean Markus Clifford Nov 29, 2025

Whether INEOS will be willing to act as early as the winter window remains to be seen, however. They may yet put all of their funds towards winning what is looking likely to be a hectic race for Anderson next summer.

INEOS can fund Elliot Anderson move by offloading Man Utd's "best player"

Baseball’s regular season is inching closer to its final crescendo and the playoff races are in full throttle.

The never-say-die Rangers and Guardians have made things interesting in the American League, while the Mets’ collapse has opened the door for the likes of the Diamondbacks, Reds and Giants to dream of October baseball. Will New York hold on for the third wild-card spot? Can the Mariners win the club’s first division title since 2001? And will Brewers manager Pat Murphy take home some hardware for the second consecutive year?

We’ll answer those questions and more in another edition of Fact or Fiction. 

The Mets will still make the playoffs despite their September skid

Things have been dire for the Amazin’s as of late. The Mets, once owners of the best record in baseball on June 12, must have broken a few mirrors or stumbled upon a black cat on Friday, June 13. Since that day, the Mets’ pitching—both starters and the bullpen—has taken a turn for the worse and the Juan Soto-led lineup has been inconsistent en route to baseball’s fourth-worst record. Heck, Mets fans can be forgiven if they began to think the team would never win a game again, as they had a nine-game losing streak before a Pete Alonso walk-off home run mercifully brought an end to the painful skid Sunday. 

And yet, after all this losing, consternation and hand-wringing, the Mets are in the driver’s seat for a playoff spot. FanGraphs likes their chances—86.4% odds to make the postseason after they beat the Padres on Tuesday—and so do I. That’s because there’s still a lot to like about the Mets. 

The lineup is slowly starting to wake up. Soto, the $765 million man, has been swinging a hot bat thus far in September and is on pace to hit the third-most homers in Mets history, trailing only two Alonso seasons. Speaking of Alonso, he’s homered in each of his last two games to snap a 10-game homerless streak. And Francisco Lindor went yard Tuesday to continue a five-game hitting streak. New York needs more than just those three, of course, but having the top of its order produce like it’s being paid to will go a long way towards the club making the postseason. 

And as for the much-maligned starters, the Mets may have found the club’s new ace in No. 3 prospect Nolan McLean, as well as two more promising young arms in Jonah Tong and Brandon Sproat, the former of whom has struggled with his command in two starts since a promising debut. But with McLean, an innings-eater in David Peterson and the solid Clay Holmes, the bones of a potential playoff-caliber rotation are there. Should Kodai Senga, who excelled in his first Triple-A start after his demotion, find his form, there’s a glimmer of hope surrounding the Mets’ rotation. 

If there’s one thing that could still sink these Mets, it’s the bullpen, in which the so-called circle of trust has dwindled to closer Edwin Diaz, Tyler Rogers and Brooks Raley. But call it a hunch, intuition or whatever you want to call it: I’m a believer that the Mets’ superior talent to the Diamondbacks, Reds and Giants will win out in the end. Mets reliever Ryne Stanek said Sunday’s walk-off win felt like a “deep breath” for the Mets. Perhaps the club will look back at that deep breath as the turning point. 

Verdict: Fact

Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez is set to miss more time this season with a "significant" left ankle sprain, Houston manager Joe Espada said on Tuesday.

Espada said Alvarez will be "out for a while," so a long-term plan hasn't been decided on yet. There is a chance he could return this season, which ends on Sunday, Sept. 28. The Astros currently sit in the last AL wild-card spot, so Alvarez could be needed for the postseason, too.

“Let’s not get into days or weeks or anything like that,” Espada said, via . “We are going to take one day at a time, but this is going to take some time to heal. We don’t have that many days left in the regular season. He’s in there getting some treatment, getting some work done. Hopefully he’s not out for a long period of time.”

Alvarez suffered the injury during Monday night's game vs. the Rangers. Alvarez was sprinting from third base and opted against sliding into home. He touched home plate with his left foot and appeared to roll his ankle after scoring. Alvarez could barely walk off the field under his own power, and was removed from the game as a result of the injury.

The three-time All-Star just returned to the majors on Aug. 26 after being out since May 2 while he dealt with a small fracture in his hand.

Through 48 games this season, Alvarez has averaged .273/.367/.430 with 45 hits, 17 runs, 27 RBIs and six home runs.

The Phillies' comeback against the Dodgers in Game 2 of the National League Division Series fell short on Monday.

The Dodgers took a 4-0 lead in the seventh inning, but the Phillies fought back with a run in the eighth inning. After holding the Dodgers without a run over the final two innings, the Phillies added two more runs early in the ninth inning.

The Phillies were trailing by just one run when Bryson Stott came up to the plate. With no outs and Nick Castellanos on second base, Philadelphia was in good position to tie up, if not win the game with a walk-off. Phillies manager Rob Thomson decided to have Stott bunt, and though he got the ball down, the Dodgers were able to get Castellanos out at third. The Dodgers got the final two outs of the game on the next three plate appearances, and took a 4-3 win.

Thomson explained the unpopular choice to have Stott bunt after the game, saying, “Left on left, we’re trying to tie the score. I liked where our bullpen was at, compared to theirs."

"Mookie did a great job of disguising the wheel play," Thomson added. "We teach our guys if you see wheel, just pull back and slash because you're getting all kinds of room in the middle. Mookie broke so late that it was tough for [Stott] to pick it up."

The Dodgers now have a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series after Philadelphia failed to win either of their first two home games. The Phillies will head to Los Angeles where they'll face elimination when they play on Wednesday.

The Mets will be without Pete Alonso next season, as the All-Star first baseman agreed to sign with the Orioles on a five-year, $155 million deal. A homegrown player, Alonso had spent his entire career in New York with the Mets up until this point, and will now be departing for Baltimore.

This is the second major loss for the Mets in free agency this offseason. Earlier this week, All-Star closer Edwin Díaz left the Mets for the Dodgers, where he signed to a three-year, $69 million contract.

Not only did the Mets fail to re-sign Alonso, but they didn’t even make him a formal offer according to beat reporters Anthony DiComo and Joel Sherman. Per Sherman, the Mets never made an offer to Alonso because he began getting bids with more dollars and years than was in their “comfort zone” to offer him.

This is a significant changeup from a year ago, when owner Steve Cohen outbid everyone to sign Juan Soto to a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million deal. This time around, the Mets didn’t even offer Alonso an extension because his price was getting too high.

Cohen previously apologized to Mets fans at the end of their disappointing 2025 season, taking accountability for the team failing to make the postseason a season after a National League championship series appearance. The Mets started the season with the best record in MLB at 45-24, and even as they tailed off during the summer, they still had over a 90% chance of making the postseason in early September. Ultimately, an eight-game losing streak in September as well as losing five of their final eight games cost them the chance to play October baseball.

While the Mets are looking to rebound from that disastrous ending, letting Díaz and Alonso walk isn’t making many Mets fans optimistic. After all, Alonso was a bright spot for New York, slashing .272/.374/.524 for 170 hits, 87 runs, 38 home runs and 126 RBIs. He led the team in RBIs and doubles and finished second in batting average, slug rate, hits and home runs while making another All-Star Game.

Instead, the Mets will be going in a different direction with several areas of their team in 2026. They’ll hope their decisions pay off, or Cohen might be typing another apology come the end of next September.

MSK Prasad, Ajit Agarkar and Kiran More go through the talent pool to pick two separate squads each

ESPNcricinfo staff03-Jun-2020In the era of Covid-19, the cricket calendar will need be redrawn and there will be a crush to fit in all the fixtures that were deferred. It has even been suggested that two formats could be played at the same time. While that may not actually happen, it throws up some intriguing selection questions.How would the three best-resourced sides in the world – England, India and Australia – fare in having two teams play at the same time in a Test and T20I?India: Global cricket experts have spoken highly of India’s talent pool, which they feel is unrivalled. Although India have never fielded two international teams at the same time, the BCCI has not ruled out such a possibility, especially since it wants to prioritise bilateral cricket in the wake of the pandemic. We asked two former chairmen of the national selection panel, Kiran More and MSK Prasad, and former India fast bowler Ajit Agarkar to pick two teams from the available bench.ESPNcricinfo LtdKiran More: I did toy with the idea of having Rohit [Sharma] lead the T20I team, but then I have always preferred experience in Test squads. He was injured during the New Zealand tour this year and India’s batting struggled in his absence. Prithvi [Shaw], his replacement, is still new to international cricket and having him open with Mayank [Agarwal], it adds pressure to the middle order, as was evident in New Zealand. Rohit provides both heft as well as balance in the top orderThe other selection I had to think twice about was picking Rishabh Pant over Wriddhiman Saha. Eventually I went for Pant because of his batting, mainly. He got centuries on the away tours to England and Australia, two of the toughest places to bat. Coming in at No. 7, he can just go and smash the bowling and change the scenario of a match. He has proved to be a very dangerous batsman. He did have teething problems with his keeping initially, but he is more mature now. Whatever people say, he has got 61 dismissals in 13 Test matches. Those are good numbers. Saha no doubt is a top wicketkeeper and good on Indian pitches, but with Pant, if we give him more chances he will get better and will be there for the next decade. And he provides balance to the overall batting order.As for the T20 set, KL [Rahul] is well equipped to lead the team and he will keep wicket. He will also be the opener with Shikhar [Dhawan], with [Sanju] Samson at one-down.ESPNcricinfo LtdMSK Prasad: Because of the ongoing World Test Championship I thought we should give priority to Test squads rather than distributing the top players into two different squads. This way we also bring in the fringe players who are on the probable list for T20 World Cup.As far as the selections went, all 12 picked themselves. In the T20Is, KL [Rahul] will be captain and wicketkeeper along with Bhuvneshwar [Kumar] as his deputy. Ideally I would have wanted to pick 13 so I could pick Prithvi [Shaw] as a third opener in Tests and Sanju Samson for the T20Is.ESPNcricinfo LtdAjit Agarkar: Obviously thinking of the T20 World Cup has factored into my selections. So [Jasprit] Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar [Kumar], if he is at his best, and the two wristspinners are the bowling attack in the T20I team. The batting in T20 may be a bit thin with Kohli in the Test team, but think it’s much easier to cope in T20s than Tests. [Ravindra] Jadeja’s improved batting is the reason for more responsibility for him, and he provides a spin-bowling option when needed, with the big grounds in Australia.The Test team is fairly straightforward. With Hardik [Pandya] in the T20I team, I have gone for the extra batsman, especially when India travel. Could always bring in an extra spinner in India.Although I have put Shubman Gill in as the 12th name, I would be looking to start with him, whether it’s opening or in the middle order. From everything we have seen, he seems to be the future, and he has been warming the bench for far too long.

This week, we bring you unforgettable moments from the venue that’s hosted more ODIs than any other

Mohammad Isam11-May-2020The iconic finishesSharjah shot to the limelight in 1986, when Pakistan needed four to win off one ball, and Javed Miandad swung Chetan Sharma off his hips and into the pages of folklore. For most of the next two decades, India and Pakistan simply couldn’t stop meeting in Sharjah, with Bollywood stars (and even the infamous gangster Dawood Ibrahim) thronging the VIP gallery.In 1995, Hashan Tillakaratne nearly pulled off a Miandad moment of his own, after scoring a valiant hundred that got Sri Lanka to the brink of victory in a record chase of 334 against West Indies. A West Indies victory looked a formality when they reduced Sri Lanka to 103 for 5, but Tillakaratne hadn’t had his say yet.The only tied matches in Sharjah also involved Sri Lanka. On both occasions, it was their match to win before they surrendered the initiative. In 1996, they restricted New Zealand to 169 but struggled in their chase, particularly against Danny Morrison. They looked to have won it when Chaminda Vaas took a single to level the scores, with two wickets and 15 balls remaining, but Sajeewa de Silva shouldered arms to Morrison, fatally, and Tony Greig wondered aloud: “Well, could this be a tie?”Three balls later, it was.Three years later, Sri Lanka gave away the game from an even better position, against Pakistan. Chasing 196, they were 157 for 1 with close to 15 overs remaining. Then Romesh Kaluwitharana was caught behind off Abdul Razzaq, and Sri Lanka collapsed spectacularly. Shoaib Malik removed the set Russell Arnold, before Wasim Akram and Razzaq cleaned up the rest of the line-up.Geniuses at workLara made not one, but two 150-plus scores in Sharjah. Against Pakistan in 1993, his 153 at the top of the order enabled West Indies to chase down 285 with 4.3 overs remaining. His highest ODI score, a brilliant 129-ball 169, also came in Sharjah, in the same match where Tillakaratne scored that hundred in the chase.Wasim Akram picked up 122 ODI wickets in Sharjah, at a remarkable average of 19.50•Getty ImagesThree years later, Sharjah became Sachin Tendulkar’s bastion, as he scored two of his most iconic ODI centuries in back-to-back matches against Australia: the Desert Storm 143 that dragged India into the final, and the 134 on his 25th birthday to seal victory in the the triangular tournament.Tendulkar finished with seven Sharjah hundreds, as did Saeed Anwar, who said before the 1999 World Cup that playing in front of big crowds at this venue had made him a stronger batsman mentally. Four of his seven hundreds came in 1993, and the best of the lot, arguably, was this 131 against West Indies in a chase of 261.Sharjah wasn’t just a batsman’s paradise, though. Wasim Akram took 122 wickets here, at an incredible 19.50, including two hat-tricks in the space of seven months in 1989-90 (As a bonus, this video also includes his two Test-match hat-tricks). There were numerous other match-winning spells, including two wickets in the first over of a tournament final against India in 1999.The everyman’s stadiumBut Sharjah wasn’t just about the big stars. Navjot Singh Sidhu made his maiden ODI hundred here, and took a dubious catch on the boundary – his feet surely touched the rope here – to help the seam-bowling allrounder Sanjeev Sharma pick up five wickets against West Indies. In 1991, Aaqib Javed bagged what were then world-record figures of 7 for 37 against India, including a hat-trick. Muttiah Muralitharan broke Javed’s record nine years later, in Sharjah again.England were also-rans in ODI cricket in the 1990s, but even they tasted success in Sharjah, when Adam Hollioake led an experimental side featuring a number of one-day specialists to victory in a quadrangular tournament also involving India, Pakistan and West Indies. Zimbabwe pulled off three wins in Sharjah against the world champions Sri Lanka in 1997-98, including this one and this one.For more such YouTube playlists, click here.

Can Finch help reduce their dependency on Kohli and de Villiers? Can Morris help with their death-over bowling woes?

Shashank Kishore12-Sep-20204:43

Is there room for both Steyn and Morris in the RCB XI?

Where they finished in 2019: Eighth, with five wins and a washout. For context, the fourth-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad finished with 12 points – that’s one more win than Royal Challengers (that said, six of RCB’s eight defeats came in their first six games).Potential XI: 1 Aaron Finch, 2 Devdutt Padikkal/Parthiv Patel, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Gurkeerat Singh, 6 Shivam Dube 7 Chris Morris, 8 Washington Sundar/Shahbaz Ahmed, 9 Navdeep Saini, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Yuzvendra ChahalBatting: It has revolved almost entirely around Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, ever since Chris Gayle left after 2017. They’ve signed up Aaron Finch, Australia’s limited-overs captain, to try and fill that void. Finch brings with him experience, and good form from the England series. His inclusion could free up Kohli to bat at his preferred No. 3 slot. However, it won’t be a bad move for Finch to slot in at one-down. Kohli has a formidable record as opener: 685 runs in 19 innings at a strike rate of 140.Parthiv Patel, the team’s third highest run-getter in 2019, may have some competition from Devdutt Padikkal if the team decides to give de Villiers the gloves. Padikkal, 20, is uncapped but has already impressed the team management with his prolific run in the 2019-20 Indian domestic season: he was the highest run-getter in both the T20 and 50-over competitions, which his team Karnataka won.The team doesn’t have proven Indian batsmen lower down the order though. Shivam Dube and Shahbaz Ahmed are good all-round picks and have proven themselves at the domestic level, but are fairly inexperienced at the international and IPL level. Gurkeerat Singh, an India international, showed glimpses of his talent late last season, and has an opportunity to cement his place this season. But again, don’t be surprised if there’s a lot of dependency on Kohli and de Villiers to do the heavy lifting.ESPNcricinfo LtdBowling: A predominantly spin-based attack could thrive in hot and dry conditions. Yuzvendra Chahal, who had a breakout season when the IPL last came to the UAE in 2014, remains the trump card, while Sundar, Ahmed and Pawan Negi lend more options. Then there’s Moeen Ali, another formidable spin-bowling allrounder, who has experience of bowling with the new ball.Death bowling has been an Achilles heel for Royal Challengers in the past, and they’ve tried to plug that gap by going for Chris Morris, whose economy of 8.34 in the last four overs in the IPL since 2015 is better than even Lasith Malinga, Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. In Navdeep Saini, they have an India regular, in the pace department, with Mohammed Siraj as back-up. Umesh Yadav, though, has fared particularly poorly in this respect, having the worst death-overs economy among all IPL bowlers in the last five years, with the cut-off being a minimum of 150 balls bowled.Maybe then, there’s a case for them to use Sri Lanka’s Isuru Udana, who has excellent slower variations, could also come into contention as the season wears on and surfaces get slower. Udana’s back-of-the-hand slower delivery, in particular, is one of his standout deliveries that batsmen find hard to pick.Young players to watch out for: The franchise has invested in Padikkal. He has good technique, balance, strikes the ball well, loves to cut and pull and does it at a formidable strike rate of 175 in T20 cricket. Then there’s Ahmed, big-hitter lower down the order who also lends excellent control with his left-arm spin. And he varies his trajectory well, he isn’t a one-trick pony. Of course, performing in domestic T20s is far different to doing it against the world’s best at the IPL, and it will be a test for him.Coaching staff: Mike Hesson (director of cricket), Simon Katich (head coach), Adam Griffith (bowling coach)